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WWI auxiliary patrol vessels


Ships


Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions (LppxB), m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Lady Fraser 14.3.1908 // mid-1917 Fairfield, Govan, UK 1669 86.0x11.6 12.5 2VTE   stricken 1919
Mayo 23.9.1896 // mid-1917 Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK 1778 85.6x11.6   1VTE   sunk 8.9.1916


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


miscellaneous patrol vessels

Bahrein (,, 5.1915 - 1919); Bhamo (1896, 255, mid-1917 - 1919); Elephanta (,, mid-1917 - 1919); Sladen (1886, 270, mid-1917 - 1919); Azerbaijan (,, 10.1918 - 11.1919)


Project history

merchant vessels converted to armed boarding steamers. They were employed on examination duties at sea for the purpose of enforcing the naval blockade.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. Mayo was sunk 8.9.1916 by German submarine.